- [first lines]
- Sister Marianna: [in supplication] Lord Rahl...
- Darken Rahl: Have you brought what I asked for?
- Sister Marianna: The Scroll of Valdaire?
- [offers it]
- Darken Rahl: Did the Seeker read it?
- Sister Marianna: I took it from him before he could break the seal.
- Darken Rahl: [pleased] Then he still has no idea what to do with the Stone of Tears when he finds it.
- Sister Marianna: And he never will.
- [about to throw the Scroll into the campfire]
- Darken Rahl: No. Do not destroy it. It is the Keeper's will that you take the Scroll to the Mord-Sith temple of Jandralyn without breaking the seal. There, you will deliver it into my hands and to my hands only.
- Sister Marianna: In the World of the Living, you're nothing more than a spirit. Into what hands am I to deliver it?
- Darken Rahl: If I were you, Marianna, I would worry more about making sure that the Seeker does not kill you and take the Scroll before you reach Jandralyn. Because I am quite sure that my intrepid brother, Richard, is already on your trail.
- Richard Cypher: The tracks lead that way, but they are at least a day old. We have to pick up our pace.
- Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander: Fortune has smiled upon us.
- Cara Mason: A Sister of the Dark has escaped with the Scroll, she's hours ahead, and you call that... fortunate?
- Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander: Do you smell that?
- Cara Mason: Smell what? Pine trees?
- Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander: Lamb, butter, a touch of fennel. There it is, on the wind, the sound of distant laughter. Which leads me to conclude we're fast approaching a roadside tavern, the balm of all weary travelers.
- Cara Mason: We don't have time to feed your belly, Wizard.
- Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander: None of us have eaten in days. We'll all move a lot faster once we are fortified. And I'm certain that a good tavern keeper will be more than happy to back up our victuals for the road. Compliments of the house.
- Darken Rahl: What an unexpected pleasure to see so many old friends... in one place. Though I must say, Walter, I have seen you looking better.
- Richard Cypher: We know what you're planning to do to him. And we're not going to let it happen.
- Darken Rahl: Now something tells me you'll do more than let it happen. You're going to kill him for me too. And then your new Sister of the Dark friend here will summon my soul into his body, and Cara's lovely lips will blow the Breath of Life into my new lungs.
- Cara Mason: You're out of your mind.
- Darken Rahl: On the contrary, I'm thinking quite clearly. Are you, brother? Or do I need to remind you that without the Scroll of Valdaire, you will never repair the veil? The Keeper will win, and every living person in this world will die. But... if you do as I ask, I will hand you the Scroll personally.
- Richard Cypher: Suddenly, you wanna defeat the Keeper?
- Darken Rahl: I want to live again. You, of all people, must understand that, brother. I miss the taste of a crisp apple, the warm press of a woman's flesh against my own. But I must admit, being a spirit does have its advantages. I can appear to Sister Marianna much faster than you can get to the temple. I have but to command her to burn the Scroll, and your failure is assured. So do we have an agreement, or don't we?
- Kahlan Amnell: If we don't give in to Rahl"s proposition, the Scroll will be ashes before we get to the temple.
- Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander: I never thought I'd say this, but that devious bastard has us by our nethers.